Word: sensationalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joining Meier on the team were Yale's freshman sensation Lisa Brummel, Pennsylvania powerhouse Carol Kuna, and the Crimson dynamic duo of Wendy Carle and Caryn Curry.
But at the time, the fault lay not with the players, but with the listener. The two sides of that one record had aroused expectations of unrelenting hilarity from these foreign jesters, and any sensation short of these unrealistic demands was bound to come off as a letdown. Looking back...
"When I was 20," he said, "I had a visionary experience in which I got fixated--an epiphany. I got hung up on the sensation of eternity--I tried to grab it. I got disillusioned with my youth. The disillusionment itself is the great vision."
And moments later, freshman sensation Liz Kelly did some shaving of her own, taking more than six seconds off her own team record in the 1000-yd freestyle. Her winning time was 10:50.6.
Despite the presence of reporters from The Boston Globe and Boston Herald American and cameras from Channel 7 News hoping to witness the latest exploits of Harvard freshman sensation Bobby Hackett, the Crimson provided little entertainment as they needed only a marginal effort to bury the surprisingly weak Brown team...